Copyright Terms of Use

Unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted property is illegal. Only works with an expired copyright, works created by the government,
or works specifically dedicated by the copyright holder as "public domain" are considered public domain. With the establishment of the Berne Convention
and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), copyright treaties were written to define international elements of copyright protection.
The United States became a member of the Berne Convention in 1989 joining most of Western Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Australia.
Therein was established a "principle of national treatment" granting broad international copyright protection to the citizens of the participating countries.

You can rest assured that VV's Victorian Prints does not violate any copyright laws with the images in our collection.
Our images are all scanned from copyright-free antique books, magazines, newspapers, postcards, etc., purchased and owned by president Valerie Vavrik.
While the original art is copyright free, the many hours spent by Valerie cleaning up and restoring the artwork into the digital format on our CDs and
on this website is copyrighted by VV Graphics, LLC.

As long as you purchase the CD, you have our permission to use the artwork as much as you want, in fact we encourage you to do so.
You may give away things you make with our images as gifts and you may sell things you make with our images as long as they are not
mass-produced or distributed.
For clarification on what we mean by mass-produced or distributed, please
EMAIL US .

This permission only extends to the original purchaser of the CD and their immediate family (unless you have gifted it to someone. If so, it is only to them).
You may download images from CDs you purchase to use on your computer(s). Your spouse and children living at home with you can use the images.
You may not sell an Image CD that includes any of our images. However you may not sell a single image or CD including any of our image(s) that have been doctored,
colorized or changed in any way either (as they still include hours and hours of our restoration/clean-up work). You may not sell prints of our images or kits
which include them. This includes paper, fabric and other mediums. However, you may purchase paper prints or preprinted fabric sheets from
VV's Victorian Prints. Our CDs and preprinted fabric sheets are available wholesale and retail. We will also discount for
classes and workshops. Please contact us for class or wholesale information.

Your friends must purchase their own CD if they want to use an image. Fortunately they are very affordable, (at only $15.99 per CD, less than .80¢ each). Violators of our copyright
will be vigorously pursued. Please contact Valerie Vavrik to obtain permission for any public or commercial use of any of our images. Reproduction
of images (or any parts of an image) on our CDs or on this web site by any means (including electronic, mechanical, recording by information storage and retrevial
systems, derivative art and artistic rendering) is prohibited. The use of any image on this web site for
any purpose requires the express permission in writing by Valerie Vavrik/VV Graphics, LLC.

If you have a class that wants to begin a project with an image from VV's Victorian Prints you will need to purchase
a CD for each participant. We encourage group project use and will help make it affordable for your group. Please contact us for a special group discount.
EMAIL US.

We occasionally donate CDs to local quilt, craft and sewing groups and to organizations putting on shows we are attending, and if you receive one of our CDs as a gift
or purchase it at a raffle or fund-raising auction, the copyright does extend/apply to you. Please note that we are not a large company, and that we receive hundreds
of requests for free products for various retreats, shows, fundraising efforts and other worthy causes. Please do not be offended if we do not respond to your request
as we get so many and just cannot afford to do all of them. Priority will be given to customers and people purchasing products.

You may use our images in an ad or document you are creating if you own the CD, and it is only going to be viewed/distriuted locally. We would
like a copy of whatever you produce for our file. We may even include it on our website. If the ad is in a publication that is distributed regionally,
nationally or internationally, you must first contact us for permission and include our company name and website in small type (like sample).
None of our images may be used in any project that is pornograhic, sexually explicit or offensive.

We do not claim rights in underlying illustrations/pictures that are in the public domain. If you want to buy the book, magazine or postcard (as we did) and do
the restoration work (as we did), you can do whatever you want with the images. However, we have invested a lot of time and money into purchasing the material
used in our collection, and in cleaning up and digitally restoring these beautiful images. We include a copyright notice on and within all of our images to protect our
rights to the digital images we sell. To continue introducing new images we rely on the copyright laws to protect our work.